Vision
Create a collective investment opportunity focused on land restoration and regenerative stewardship supported through outdoor recreational events and educational workshops.
What We’ve Restored
In 2015 we purchased a 35 acre dump in the dry, forgotten chaparral foothills of Riverside county and began the arduous process of restoration. Over the course of the past ten years, we pulled thousands of loads of garbage, created swales to improve aquifers, built soil, planted pioneer species, and made a small mission-driven community with some pretty amazing people along the way.
Co-ownership of 3rd Spaces
If Home is our 1st space, and Work is our 2nd space, then 3rd spaces are where we engage with our community. 3rd spaces are largely virtual in today's world, but they often isolate us into politically and transactionally manipulated algorithms. Nature grounds us in ways that cannot be imitated, and we wither away without authentic human connection. The spaces where we find such "common ground" are what we have come to call, "places of Re-Membering." We simply cannot depend on the department of Agriculture to insure healthy food from industrial farms or protect Nature from industrial exploitation. Through the mechanisms of a Public Benefit Corporation, we are re-claiming some common grounds to bring them and ourselves back to life.
Our goals are to improve how human communities and Nature can relate symbiotically.
Some of the things that we've learned (and are always relearning) is that we all want to be heard and be given benefit of the doubt. None of that is possible if we cannot earn a reputation that grows trust. Those who can honor and trust one another have collective resilience. We do not leave these to assumption, but rather seek them with intention. Intention is knowing what you stand for and setting healthy boundaries as commitments are made. Our contract not only identifies our shared intentions, it also creates incentives for meeting them and sunsets periods for reevaluation. The EcoShire Team is committed to health, safety and mutual benefit while allowing us to take innovative risks. We practice regenerative land restoration to re-connect people with themselves, their extended community, and their shared values with reverence to Nature.
Our rule of thumb for innovation is: "is it worthwhile goal that outlined well enough for now, and safe enough to try for a defined period of time?"
